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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. GILBERT, OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,799, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed December 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAs. A. GILBERT, of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of a shirt constructed to embody my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, looking down upon the shoulders; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, showing the bosom crimped to one side and one of the gores crimped. l

My invention relates to dress-shirts, and has for its object to provide a means whereby the breaking or rumpling of the starched bosom may be avoided when the body of the wearer changes position.

My invention consists in inserting in the yoke ofthe shirt, on each side of the neck, two tleXible gores, which enable the bosom to move to a considerable degree, both endwise and sidewise, without rumpling.

In the said drawings, A shows the body of the shirt. B is the bosom, and C the collarband. The yoke of the shirt is of ordinary construction and size, with the exception that the edges on each side of the collar-band are cut (No model.)

as shown at a a, and a short iexible gore is inserted just above the points where the upper edge of the bosom terminates.

As the central line of the bosom of the shirt changes position as the wearers body moves, the gores ay a yield or close up, as shown in Fig. 3, and a strain sufficient to break or crumple the front or bosom cannot be brought to bear on it, and thereby the ornate character and the wearing capacity are both highly enhanced.

By actual tests in wear-I have found the Wearing capacity is more than doubled, and that scarcely any position or exercise can be made to crumple the bosom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. As an improved article of wearing-apparel, a shirt provided in its yoke with yielding gores c a, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a shirt, a bosom having free or unattached side and top edges, in combination with a yoke having yielding gores, substantially as described.

CHARLES A GILBERT.

Witnesses:

R. K. EVANS, JNO. L. CONDRON. 

